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Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jan 29, 1905

Page

3

Bargain Counter Cleaned Out for Dress Goods and Linens

One lot remnants wool dress goods at half price. Two thousand yards white goods and ginghams 5 cts. One thousand yards cotton goods 74 cents. Fruit of Loom Bleaching 7 c, printed fleeced flannelettes 74 cents. 25 pieces extra quality white check Dimity 4 cents. Muslin 10 cents. Persian Lawn 124 cents. Cambric dress lining 34 cents. Striped Shirting ChevrWotts 84 cents. Percales 10 cents. Turkish Towels 10 cents. Linen towel crash 8 1-2 cents. Towels and Napkins on Bargain Counter. Windsor Ties 15 cents. Lace and embroidered collars 15 cents. Wool gloves. Windsor ties 10 cents. Embroidery remnants. Gasamer’s for ladies and kids half price. Boys wool pants 25 cents. Boys cassimere 35 cents or 8 for $1. Ladies wraps half price.

Gasamer's

Closing Out Ladies and Misses Clothing Inventory

Fine and basic ladies and misses garments offered at deep discounts to close out. Includes tailor made suits from 3.50 to 6.40 original values, wool coats at 1.75, a wide range of shirts, pants, skirts, underwear, and related items priced 19 cents to 1.50 each. Blankets draperies upholstery and curtains also reduced.

Dorset Sale Offers Various Items at Deep Discounts

A Dorset sale advertises closeout pricing with many items in assorted makes selling for 75 cents and 1.00 each, with a choice selection available at 35 cents to close out.

Soap sale offers assorted soaps and toiletries

A local ad lists six cakes of fine glycerine toilet soap for 25 cents, six extra large white floating soaps for 25 cents, and six cakes of assorted soaps for 25 cents. Also advertised are Colgate’s toilet waters extracts and talcum powder.

Colgate

New Dress Fabrics and Accessories Offer

New shipment includes ruching and ribbons, fancy collars and ties, shopping bags, hair ornaments, ceilings, buttons, white lawns, check muslins, dimities, ginghams, percaIes, long cloth, cambrics, 12 yards fine Jong cloth and cambric at $1.00 per piece, plus trunks dress suit cases telescopes and hand satchels.

How Cardiff Giant Was Carved and Carried to New York

A 82 year old recalls the Cardiff Giant fraud tale from 1868. Two con men hired Foley to quarry rock, shipped a 12 by 4 by 3 foot block to Chicago for carving, then to Union New York where it became a giant statue and drew tens of thousands to Cardiff for its unveiling and long fraud lore.

Michael Foley Foley Cardiff Hull Syracuse N. Y Martin Cedar Rapids St. Charles Ft. Dodge Tan New York Springfield Ill Iowa Lincoln Monument Big Boone Youte Des Moines Humran George Olds Union N.Y Onondaga County

You Can Interest Him Any Man Over Fifty

An advertising piece argues men over fifty seek health improvements and digestion aid. It touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as direct help for a weak stomach, claiming one tablet digests 3,000 grains of food and that digestion drives blood and nerves health. It cites Dr Bennett and asserts tablets cure indigestion, heartburn, and related conditions more than other remedies.

Stuart Ata Bennett

Kingdom of Heaven and Ark of the Covenant at Christian Church

The Christian Church will hold morning services at 11 with a sermon titled The Kingdom of Heaven Its Terms of Admission. In the evening the subject is The Ark of the Covenant. Bible School at 9 45 Junior Endeavor at 3 30 and Y P C B at 7 with Hero es of Foreign Missions as the topic. J W Benson leads Y P C B.

The Christian Church Bible Heroes of Foreign Missions J. W. Benson

Popular Miss Maude Cox Disappears Suddenly for Europe

Lancaster Ohio reports 17 year old Maude Cox, once a social favorite, left for Lima to visit kin but sailed to New York and boarded a steamer to England. She entered a Dominican convent at Stone Staffordshire. A letter from her to day offers no explanation.

Lancaster Ohio New York

Greatly In Demand for Dr. King's New Life Pills

Advertises a blood and system cleanser to cure stomach and liver troubles. Dr. King's New Life Pills sold at W. J. Smith & Bro. and H. R. Palmer & Sons drug stores for 25 cents with a guarantee.

Dr. King W. J. Smith & Bro H. R. Palmer & Sons

Athens & Coal Co Advertises Five Twenty-Five Per Ton Coal

The Athens and Coal Company offers Black Diamond Coal at five dollars and twenty five cents per ton. They guarantee customer satisfaction and provide a phone contact as T17.

Athens & Coal Co

Augusta Arsenal Rehabilitation Endorsed by War Department

Brigadier General Crozier head of the ordnance bureau endorses rehabilitating the Augusta arsenal as more than a repair shop. He urges a 50000 dollar initial appropriation to start upgrades and push toward larger small arms factory work. Senator Bacon pushed the project and Crozier's inspection supports funding in the sundry civil appropriation bill.

Washington Crozier Ordnance Bureau War Department Bacon Augusta Arsenal Senate Augusta General Crozier Auguste Arsenal

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